SWAT team responds to Lauderhill home after subject barricaded himself inside

Authorities in Broward County responded to a residential neighborhood after a subject barricaded himself inside a home.

It happened Tuesday night along the 1400 block of Northwest 33rd Way in Lauderhill.

According to deputies, detectives were serving an arrest warrant when the subject locked himself inside the house and refused to come out.

A Broward Sheriff’s Office SWAT team, as well as hostage negotiators, responded to the home, deputies said.

Eventually, authorities said they took the subject into custody shortly after 11 p.m.

The identity of the subject, or what the initial arrest warrant was for, have not been released by police.

Residents were asked to avoid the area while authorities worked the scene.